Turkey said it was ready "if necessary" to let in tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing a major Russian-backed regime offensive, as aid agencies warned yesterday of a "desperate" situation.

Germany flips the switch on an experiment they hope will advance the quest for nuclear fusion, considered a clean and safe form of nuclear power.

Washington and its allies yesterday vowed to "accelerate and intensify" the fight against Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq but

European Council President Donald Tusk yesterday presented proposals for keeping Britain in the European Union to a mixed response,

French President Francois Hollande called Monday for an end to US sanctions on Cuba during a historic visit to Paris by President Raul

More than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving in Europe over the past two years, the EU's police intelligence unit says.

Germany moved to tighten its asylum laws to slow a record migrant influx as police yesterday said number of attacks on asylum

Five times more attacks were carried out on migrant hostels in Germany last year than in 2014, German police say.

A man carrying two handguns, ammunition and a Quran was arrested yesterday at a hotel in Disneyland Paris, and his girlfriend was also held, police sources said.

A team of rescue workers watched as at least 31 refugees drowned in the Aegean Sea fearing being charged with people smuggling.

Heavy rain and strong winds have hit parts of the UK as the "remnants" of the storm that brought severe blizzards to the US arrives in the country.

The United Nations yesterday said that crucial talks on ending the Syria conflict would likely be delayed by a few days, as a dispute over who will represent the opposition intensified.

Amnesty International has urged Denmark's parliament to reject proposed changes to the country's laws on refugees that it says would "have a devastating impact on vulnerable people" and may violate international human rights laws.

France returns the head of a Hindu deity's statue from the 7th century more than 130 years after it was taken away in the name of research.

Women who carry an inherited fault in the BRIP1 gene are three times more likely to develop ovarian cancer than those without it, researchers say.

Muslim women who fail to learn English to a high enough standard could face deportation from Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron

The richest one percent of the world's population now own more than the rest of us combined, aid group Oxfam says, on the eve of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.

Turkish police yesterday detained over a dozen academics who signed a petition criticising the military crackdown in the Kurdish-dominated southeast that

A clinical trial of a new drug in France leaves one person brain-dead and another five people in hospital, the health minister says.

Belgian police have identified three safe houses used by key suspects including presumed ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud as they plotted the deadly Paris